Clooney Says ‘Suburbicon’ Still a Coen Project
Little is known about the fabled Joel and Ethan Coen Suburbicon script except that it’s a dark comedy. Though it has been rumored that George Clooney was going to make it, the actor/director/inventor of Tang recently took a few moments out of his busy schedule mapping the human genome to tell MTV that this isn’t so. “I think [the Coens] are going to direct it but I love that project. I have a part in it that I would love to play.”
Removing his safety goggles and lab coat, Clooney added off the record: “Now if you’ll excuse me, Brad and I have to go save Barry Sonnenfeld from the Internet.”
Source: MTV.
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Inventor of Tang? That’s the black mark on his record, Craig.
:-)
lol, love to see what he’s doing next.
I’ve heard Clooney is actually composed entirely of embrionic stem cells and that he has the ability to quickly assume whatever form or function necessary to woo Hollywood, the media, and Tang drinkers alike.
Cure for cancer indeed.
I look forward to anything that combines the Clooney and the Coens in one package.
(awkward segue) Speaking of Leatherheads, it was pretty clear Clooney studied hard at the Coen School of Comedy, but he wasn’t able to pull off his final exam.
He gave it a good try and it wasn’t really a hate-able film, but it’s pretty instantly forgettable.
Alison, what’s your beef with Tang?? Ok, so it tastes a little like watered down yak urine…but it was a staple of my childhood. Plus it’s been in space!
So, which filmmaker–or in the case of the Coens, team of filmmakers–has the biggest workload according to the number of projects to which they are currently attached?
It seems to me Spielberg, the Coens, Ridley Scott and, if he’s to be believed at all, David Fincher, all have several very busy years just ahead of them.
Aren’t the Coens going to work on something in 2008, almost certainly to be released in 2009?
(The fact that Woody Allen makes a film a year is just part of nature and doesn’t merit special consideration, ahaha… Though I’m glad he’s back working in New York City this spring with Larry David, no less!)
by my count they have Burn After Reading in September to be followed by A Serious Man and The Yiddish Policeman’s Union. Who knows if or how Suburbicon fits in. Is there more than that?
How much of it is real and how much of it is just because there’s so much Internet attention on Spielberg, Scott, Fincher and the Coens?
I imagine projects are rumored for people all the time, but once the hungry Internet (don’t tell Barry) gets a hold of the rumors, they take on the weight of fact. Just like it was a fact Clooney was going to direct Suburbicon…
Well, it kind of depends, Craig. There are always silly rumors about those guys and they do receive a disproportionate amount of attention/gossip-mongering (especially Spielberg–remember when Jeff Wells ran that specious story a couple years back about him remaking Harry Poppins? Not to mention the seemingly endless number of video game adaptations ‘Net nerds have said Spielberg was somehow attached to direct, haha) but judging by the actual solid cases of directors attaching themselves to certain projects, I do think the ones I mentioned have particularly large workloads. Though I am always dubious about Fincher, because as Joel noted, he seems to like to attach himself to a whole bunch of films and then lets 90% of them fall by the wayside.
Just for fun:
Coens: Burn After Reading (just about locked and set to be released in September), A Serious Man, The Yiddish Policeman’s Union, Suburbicon and Hail Caesar. I also spy this film entitled Gambit–is that just a screenwriting task? Hmm…
Fincher: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (postproduction, to be released in December), that Heavy Metal thing, Black Hole, a film about Elliot Ness (?) and Rendezvous with Rama
Scott: Body of Lies (postproduction, to be released in October), Nottingham, Blood Meridian and The Low Dwellers.
Spielberg: Indiana Jones IV (locked and to be released in May), The Trial of the Chicago 7, Lincoln, Tintin, Interstellar and some original Musical concept he’s been quietly persuing, apparently (though he’s talked about making a musical for literally decades) and I’ll Be Home (which he admittedly hasn’t talked about for a good while now).
You’re right, though, nothing on the Internet can be trusted aside from production shots of the directors making the films they’re making. That’s when I get giddy. Ooh, there’s Michael Mann shooting Public Enemies. There’s Spike Lee making The Miracle of St. Anna… Yes, it is comforting.
I was going to add to this, but my bathroom plumbing is broken and Clooney just showed up to fix the pipes.
I think I saw Clooney walking an old lady across the street in San Francisco a few weeks back. Then he started to walk across the bay because the ferry times for the Alcatraz tour didn’t work for him.
ahahahah. Clooney is everywhere!
The funny thing about these Fincher rumors is that the guy isn’t prolific at all. It’s like someone saying that Terrence Malick has half a dozen projects lined up after Tree of Life.
Also, putting Clooney’s name so close to the word Tang is so easy a joke that I won’t bother making it. However, I won’t hold it against him. After all, the guy just took my order for a new laptop and said he’d hand-deliver it to me at work in two weeks. So he’s got that going for him.
Paul C., on both of your points–about Fincher not being prolific and yet having so many projects lined up and Clooney’s name so close to Tang–I couldn’t agree more, ahahaha…
Craig, we weren’t allowed to drink Tang growing up. My mother was one of the first to read labels and ban preservatives from our home. I had a Tang-less and Twinkie-less childhood.
Didn’t Clooney win the NBA All Stars slam dunk competition without leaving a single hair out of place?
Sartre~
Yes, but only on his head. His dunk was so mindblowing that everyone else’s hair all fell out. Then he went off to ghost-write his next book under his usual pseudonym- J.K. Rowling.
He’s a man/woman/alien of many silly hats.
After Clooney fixed the pipes, he fixed me lunch. A light pasta salad with olive oil from his villa’s garden. Then he was off to Darfur. He said he’d back later to paint my office. What a trooper.
Watch what you say about Clooney in regards to Tang, Paul. He takes that stuff kinda seriously.
Remember kids: The Clooney giveth, and the Clooney can taketh away.
Pasta salad with olive oil, Christian? All I got from him was a rock.
Along Paul’s line of thinking Alison, my adult life is mainly Tang-less as well at the moment. Cough cough.
Aw, poor Craig. We all need Tang in our adult life. Cough cough.
Alison~
Millions of women the world over would kill for George Clooney to bestow a rock upon them.
Oh, and Craig- I feel your pain. I haven’t had Tang since college. Maybe it’s because Clooney’s taken all of it.
Daniel Day-Lewis may drink your milkshake, but George Clooney will take your Tang.
Tang is piss. I prefer Moon Sticks.
Very true, Paul. :-)
Moon Sticks. Tasty and nutritious!
This thread is hilarious. I’d take George AND DDL.
On alternate days.
Ahahahaha. You people make me laugh. That’s why I like you so much.